Good morning,

This is the day the Lord has made, let's rejoice, and make today a masterpiece!

Today is Thoughtful Thursday ( The Purpose & Community Accelerator)

(You can learn more about the 7 Accelerators here) 

Today do something thoughtful for someone else. Connect them with something they need or do something to make their day. 

This is the purpose and community accelerator. 

We each have a unique gifting that is meant to serve the community of people around us, and one of the ways to do this is by looking for opportunities to help people with your gifts, talents, resources, network, etc. 

Here is today's communion meditation.

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This year our message for the year is "Lift Up Your Eyes to True North." 

And a few days ago, we talked about a study done at the Max Plank Institute where people were dropped off in the wilderness without anything to navigate with and told to find their way out. And it turned out that without navigation people would go in circles because they made small, biased decisions to the right or left that caused them to go in circles. 

In the Bible we see the people circling the mountain in the wilderness for years, until God told them to "turn north." 

Proverbs 4:27 says, "Do not turn to the right or the left; keep your foot from evil."

Something I have been thinking about lately, is that if we have had an ongoing issue for years, and we've done our share of laps around the mountain, dealing with the same problems over and over then it means we are making small, biased decisions in one direction.

These little decisions can be easy to miss because they are small, but they keep us going in circles, rather than moving forward. 

In today's communion we are asking God to help us do something thoughtful for someone today and we are asking God to reveal to us any areas where we've been making small, biased decisions that have kept us going in circles. 

Today's Health and Fitness Tip

Through years of training people in the gym, I've had a number of people come to me saying they eat well and exercise regularly but have been going in circles on their progress for years. And the answer is usually in the little decisions they are making on a regular basis. Let's start to pay attention to those little decisions in our nutrition and workouts. 

I am praying for you.

Daniel

P.S. Remember the Master is with you, he loves you, and nothing is impossible for him. 

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